"The Hanging Tree" has outperformed expectations for its first week on the U.K. sales chart. The song, performed by James Newton Howard featuring Lawrence, was positioned for a solid chart entry when the Official Charts Company announced it had come in at No. 29 on the midweek sales.

Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen in the dystopian Hunger Games films. The latest in the series is dominating the U.K. box office, scoring the year's biggest opening weekend with $19.9 million.

The song was written by Suzanne Collins (author of The Hunger Games book series) and The Lumineers' Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz. It's heard in the film first as an a cappella performance by Lawrence (in character as Katniss) before she is joined by a choir and an orchestra.